The Giant Ice Sheet That Shaped Seattle | Nick on the Rocks

[@stevengeorge5605]

The Nick on the Rocks series is the best. Many thanks to Cascade PBS, Brady, Paul, and Nick!

[@ocrow8079]

Love the enthusiasm. You make geology interesting and accessible. Thanks

[@stevew5212]

Nick is the greatest geology professor. He will inspire you to learn geology. He has a way of hooking you into wanting to learn and that makes all the difference when it comes to learning.

[@briane173]

His own love for learning is infectious, and that's what makes his talent as a teacher so genuine. Nick can't get enough of learning, exploring new ideas, and imparting it on others -- whether it be his students or the community he's built on KZbin. They don't get any better than this. Nick is a unicorn among scientists; most scientists and university professors are either socially awkward or detached altogether just from living inside their own brilliant heads, but Nick is a gregarious, humble soul with a unique sense of humor, who loves people as much as he loves his subject and his career.

[@KyleWessels-c8z]

Thank you Nick, the whole "On the Rocks" crew, and PBS for hosting and sharing.

[@paullucas6019]

Thank you Nick and team! I very much enjoy these interesting little tidbits, please keep making them!

[@NH-il6uc]

Nick On The Rocks…well IT ROCKS!!!

[@jetblast1212]

I know the backstory on why a Nick on the Rocks was made in Seattle, knowing that makes it more exciting that this may be one of the best storytelling episodes that Nick has done so far. Bravo to all involved. Thanks, Cascade PBS for making this great content possible.

[@carlenaponce9205]

Nick & PBS along with the Pacific Science Center makes for educational fun. 🤩♥️

[@Retr0racin]

Nick Rocks

[@AndrasIlles-b3w]

This is one of my favorites! Thank you for all your hard work and I look forward to the next episode.

[@raenbow66]

Excellent information! Highlighting areas I thought I knew.... and using the Columbia Center to help us see the height of the ice sheet is brilliant. Each video is my new favorite. Great locations, and the story is perfectly clear and fascinating. Super. ❤

[@dancooper8551]

Another excellent episode!

[@mattcwatkins]

I'm always amazed at Nick's ability to not only explain new things to me, but also present things I kinda already knew in a way that deepens my understanding and illustrate the reasons and processes they happened. Plus putting Sammmaish, Washington, and Green Lake in perspective of places I know well further deepens the experience. Nick, Rick Steves, and Bill Nye are three examples of Washington State treasures.

[@TheDavidN]

This is what started me to be curious about our geological history here! The Puget Lobe glacier on I-90 Rocks.

[@johntiger5]

Nick is a " Rock Star "

[@hestheMaster]

The drumlins that are around Seattle go in a north south direction with long axial shapes. Imagine a 3000 foot high ice sheet travelling slowly southwards plowing through this area. Wooh! The animation at the end tells the story as does Nick' s excellent storytelling of history through discovery.

[@jaytolbert7538]

These NOTR productions are priceless.

[@JackMorningstar001]

Good stuff!

[@judykinsman3258]

Nick on the Rocks!! 🎉

[@georgeemeny6123]

Grew up on QueenAnne hill, knew there there was a ice sheet that covered Seattle but didn't know it was 3'000 feet thick. yikes. Thanks Dr. Nick.

[@scottowens1535]

Nerd says hellos, seems like I was just watching you hahaha..( it's now 2:40 Thurs). Thank you Sir and it was a good session today and a great personal update and thank you for letting your other extended family know.. Ace's and Carry On!

[@leannevandekew1996]

Riding a bicycle, you discover the east-west difficulty.

[@divernovs]

very well done. thanks Nick

[@jenniferlevine5406]

How I wish you could come up to BC and do one of these great films! Love your work!

[@101rotarypower]

Envious of Washington having someone to explain all the little detailed geology nuances of your area. Is there anyone even close to as prolific for the Oregon area, and specifically around Portland to detail these topics as well as Nick does?

[@tgsoapbox]

Nick is a state treasure - If you haven't watched his lectures from Central, you're mssing out.

[@orcstr8d]

Now that we've bored our Seattle Light Rail tunnel(s) it's time to bore some arterial tunnels under the North/South hills like Phinney, View Ridge, Beacon Hill etc, and give those neighborhoods a break. Let's give SeaTown more than just Madison Street as the only uninterrupted E-W route between Puget S and Lake WA.

[@Thom4ES]

Try the longer formats....nick is fun

[@RoxnDox]

A nice presentation. One view of a topo map of the Puget Sound lowlands would have been the perfect visual, though.

[@Steviepinhead]

The Wedgwood erratic has a Mt. Erie connection, if memory serves. Right direction, but not quite all the way from Canada.

[@gregburkhart9764]

Those darned Canadians!

[@briane173]

Cover us with ice and then won't clean up their mess afterwards. Rude.

[@kenmore01]

We knew the Canadians were up to something!

[@paulbrallier7028]

One more way to see the drumlins…Pull up Lidar images and see the land forms. Drumlins and subglacial drainages. From Battery fully charged

[@ericsonhazeltine5064]

Nice presentation. You should get some animation.

[@johnhagemeyer8578]

He used chock boards in lectures plus pictures in his lectures in Ellensburg College Utube channel, he is great at this.😊

[@Fred_Lougee]

Um...Nick. Please correct me if I am in error but Lake Washington was, I am led to believe, salt water. A mud flow off of Mt. Rainier dammed the valley at some point closing the lake off from Puget Sound.

[@arlenesobhani8739]

Okay, then what explains the Fremont Troll?

[@CosmicAliveness]

Who is this dude ? Saying 1/4 of the oceans were frozen at the poles sky spire axial roto max awesome

[@aaronlevitz4984]

I'm trying very hard to not make a political joke here, but it's very difficult not to....